Body Liberation Coaching with The Radical Dietitian

Six months of deep care that will support you in

  • Deepening into your practice of a food and body relationship that is unshackled by guilt and shame

  • Reviving a practice of self-care that was upended by a new medical diagnosis or other major life shift

  • Refresh your food routines to bring presence, play, and pleasure to the forefront

  • Revise & update your personal definition of health & wellbeing, informed by grace over moral punishing

  • Living fully from within your body, your home for this lifetime

Former Client

“Virginia's approach to nutrition and body trust is exactly what I have needed: rooted in an awareness of systemic issues, centered in acceptance, infused with genuine care and compassion.”

Former Client

“Virginia is one of the most gifted providers I have worked with over the decades and I so appreciate her!”

“Virginia is a rare breed of dietitian and healer. Her work is both deeply wise and deeply grounded. Her commitment to body justice, fat affirmation,  inclusion, and equity is everpresent and palpable.  Virginia is a resource and a breadth of knowledge who leads with warmth, presence, and her humanity.  She is practiced and understanding at sitting with complexity and is honoring of lived experience. Working with Virginia as a clinician or a mentor will offer you a firm foundation from which your own healing process can evolve.”

-Hilary Kinavey, MS, LPC, Co-founder of the Center for Body Trust Author of Reclaiming Body Trust: A Path to Healing and Liberation

What’s Included in Body Liberation Coaching?

Body Liberation coaching is a lovely offer for those interested in short term support for their food and body healing journeys. 

In 5 supported sessions we will explore:

  • What is coming up for you with your current chapter of healing (examples could be a new diagnosis, a major life shift bringing up old wounding, raising children and navigating feeding and body image for yourself and them, body shifts, aging, etc) 

  • Identify and remove (if possible) barriers to moving yourself towards a place of more gentleness and ease with food and your body

  • A wider lens of context for your struggle and ways to validate your personal experiences of struggle and harm, along with ways that you can tend to these for yourself. The problem was never your body, and we will begin or continue to externalize the problem outside of you, from where it came. 

You will have the opportunity to get referrals, explore questions to ask and boundaries to implement when it comes to working with medical professionals, family, loved ones, and other healers in regards to honoring your unique healing process. Together we will identify the places where it feels most resonant to focus as you continue your ongoing healing beyond our time together. 

 What you get:

Workbook prior to our first session that will help you and I gather the pertinent details of where you have been, where you are now, and what you are hoping to get from coaching with me. 

5 virtual guided and supported sessions with me (1st session is 90 minutes, follow-up four sessions are 60 minutes). Our sessions will be a space to go deep and grapple, to be relieved with humor, to be witnessed, held, and validated. 

Text/ voice memo/ email support in between sessions, a place to vent, connection and witnessing when triggered, reminders of your truth and values, snack and meal prompts for ideas, brainstorm space, and a place to be witnessed in successes and ah ha moments.

Your support and guide:

Virginia Newman, the radical dietitian, has been a dietitian practicing for 8 years and working with eating disorders in her private practice The Radical Dietitian for 7 years. She has an immense breath and depth of knowledge of eating disorders and disordered eating, Body Trust, trauma informed care, and neurodivergent affirming practice. She has an undergraduate degree in Sociology and a masters degree in Nutrition and Dietetics and is a certified Body trust provider, unlearning and relearning since 2017 and certified since 2020. She authored the chapter on Orthorexia in Springer’s 2020 Adolescent Nutrition and has worked with children, adolescents, and adults throughout her career. 

She has been closely tied to and engaged with her own healing process since early adulthood, and has lived experience of temporary physical disability, eating disorder and recovery, and living with Trauma impacts. She is a white, currently able bodied with intermittent chronic pain, queer, neurodivergent survivor. 

Please read the testimonials here and here to learn more about Virginia’s work. Please also explore the ethics and about me page to understand the foundations of the work I offer. 


Commitment: 

The Body Liberation Coaching program is a 6 month commitment. The program cost is 1,600.00 and payment plans are available (400.00/ month for 4 months, beginning at sign up).

Though I am a registered dietitian, this coaching program is not to be substituted for eating disorder care or medical nutrition therapy. In such, I will offer education from my expertise, but I will not be coordinating care with your healthcare team, charging insurance, or making intervention recommendations.